Tales from The Pumpkin Patch by T S Paul & Bradford Bates & Taki Drake

Author:T S Paul & Bradford Bates & Taki Drake [Paul, T S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Tales from the Pumpkin Patch
Publisher: All Chaos Press
Published: 2017-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

Watch Where You Dig

by TS Paul

Kansas is boring.

I sighed as I looked out my office window. If someone had told me there was an FBI posting in the ass-end-of-nowhere like Larkin, Kansas I would have laughed. How I ended up here is even more laughable.

"Agent Mills, how could you be so stupid?"

I winced at the tone of SAIC Peterson's rant. It really wasn't my fault. Not really. How was I supposed to know that the local police force wasn't involved in the investigation?

"We informed everyone that this was to be kept under wraps until the raid was over. YOU and YOU alone let the damn suspect get away! What were you thinking?" Peterson's face was a livid red as he screamed at me.

Opening my mouth to speak he cut me off.

"Don't speak! Did it not occur to you that the police force would talk to the mayor? That maybe the man you spoke to wasn't related to the man we were about to arrest for charges as long as my arm? What possessed you to even try to sabotage this investigation?" The red-faced, screaming man stopped and stared at me.

I looked left and then right. Standing on either side of me was the field commander and the chief investigator. Both men that I had reported to for the first time not three hours ago. Minutes before it went to hell. They looked as mad as the Special Agent. Swallowing and then clearing my throat I launched into my story.

"Sir. It was my first day with the unit. I arrived on the scene less than an hour after arriving on station here. The Agent in charge of the office handed me a box of radio equipment to take to the field operation. He directed me to give it to the command staff in the main truck. I was not informed at that time what the operation even was." I took a breath and continued. "I used my phone to locate the operation when the directions I was given didn't make sense. After I had driven down three one-way streets, I stopped to ask a local LEO for help. It was my first day. No one briefed me on anything."

Turning to my left, I looked at the field commander. "Sir. You took the box from headquarters and ordered me to watch the rear of the van. Never once did you explain the operation or who any of the suspects even were. Even I didn't know the mistake I made until I went inside the operations van. And that was only because he is the one that handed me the briefing file. But even that was too late. I was watching the team bust into the Mayor's office when I asked about the bust. I didn't erase my phone searches, and I was driving one of the team’s vehicles. Checking the basic facts of my story shouldn't be too hard. At least that's what I told the Agent from Internal Affairs."

I was standing at the FBI's version of attention, so I missed the wince that both men gave the SAIC.

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